Correlation is not necessarily cause
A common mistake in trying to think scientifically but failing to live up to the standards is: taking a correlation for …
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Pu Bu – The Falls
PU BU – The Falls (2021) running in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival. I chose to watch it …
Partly False Information
It is lurking there. You will not see or feel it – it will change your mind and nobody will rescue …
Numbers Game
“People trust data. Numbers seem real. Charts have charismatic power. People believe what can be quantified. But data do not always …
Lobo, Precht, Horx & Klopp & die Querdummheit
Der Dichter und Dramatiker James Thomson definierte einen Philosophen als einen, der sich der folgsamen Herde widersetzt in seinem “Sommer: Ein Gedicht” (1730) orig. …
Dark numbers rule..?
A call for the importance of asymptomatic cases in the spread of Covid-19 involving studies from China, Italy and Japan. Bear …